Site Symmetry in Crystals is the first comprehensive account of the group-theoretical aspects of the site (local) symmetry approach to the study of crystalline

Symmetry exists in realms from crystals to patterns, in external shapes of living or non-living objects, as well as in the fundamental particles and the physica

The book presents the basic information needed to understand and to organize the huge amount of known structures of crystalline solids. Its basis is crystallogr

Crystals are everywhere, from natural crystals (minerals) through the semiconductors and magnetic materials in electronic devices and computers or piezoelectric

About half a century ago Landau formulated the central principles of the phe nomenological second-order phase transition theory which is based on the idea of sp